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Maybe it’s time to stop organizing competitive sports around gender. Why gender? Why not height? Or testosterone level? Something relevant to creating a level playing field for the competition

Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and po...

"Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa" www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

Canada Loses Its Measles Elimination Status. What Does It Mean for the U.S.? The disease was once considered eliminated in Canada, but not any more — there have been more than 5,000 cases in the last 12 months as vaccination rates have fallen.

Measles was once considered eliminated in Canada, but not anymore — there have been more than 5,000 cases in the last 12 months as vaccination rates have fallen. Here's how they got there, and why other countries — including the U.S. and Mexico — are also at risk of losing their status.

8/ Ironically, for an event advertised with obvious neo-Nazi imagery and with organizers with neo-Nazi tattoos, they talked about how conferences like these make them more respectable. They believe this makes them a threat to the establishment.

Everybody Attending White Nationalist Conference Caught on Film Advertised near-exclusively in white nationalist online spaces, promotional social media posts for the event include symbolism popular with neo-Nazis, including the kolovrat sun wheel and a table with...

1/ NEW: We identified 20 people who attended a white nationalist conference and, despite their efforts to keep it secret, caught another 30 people on film to identify in the future. Several MMA/combat sports instructors were discovered and their gyms have cut ties.

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It is wild, if not surprising I guess, that whether people could fly somewhere at Thanksgiving seemed to have more political effect than whether people could *eat* at Thanksgiving.

Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.

Bad news for human rights and national security, no matter how you spin it

NSO Group has a new executive chairman, David Friedman, who's a former U.S. ambassador to Israel and onetime bankruptcy lawyer for President Trump.

www.wsj.com/tech/israeli... via @WSJ

Everyone in his party has to pretend he’s not demented. But nothing he says or does is rational or presidential

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West"

Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Like the gun debate in America, where money and identity override reason, the tech industry’s fixation on profit and polarization will make their stated goal of fostering healthy online conversation the Silicon Valley version of “thoughts and prayers.” #emptymantra

The “Likable”/“Unlikable” Political Realignment - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog American conservatism is a home for unlikeable people who’ve turned their unlinkability into a political project.

Key to understanding contemporary American politics is that the Republican Party's defining characteristic is that it's a welcoming home for unlikeable people. www.aaronrosspowell.com/3m52ndshej22l

Everything is a loyalty test with MAGA. “Oh you want access to power ladies? Well here’s the number for the plastic surgeon”

Blaming Foreigners for American Failings Won’t Fix Them Railing against Ukraine, Israel, and other outsiders is easy. Solving problems at home is not.

I wrote about how American politicians love to blame foreigners and external actors for domestic problems, and how this often prevents us from understanding the real causes of those problems and solving them. Gift link:

You were way too polite

No.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.

My response ⬇️

Should the countries of the world start collecting donations to help the starving Americans?

We should run. AI is mostly hallucination and false information

“Before” is optimistic

‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison

Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...

These guys are constantly saying that Dems need to abandon identity politics and run on kitchen-table issues. They get the most kitchen table-ass candidate imaginable, spend months saying he's secretly radical, then as soon as he wins they say he's secretly moderate.

268,000 Venezuelans living in the US lost their Temporary Protected Status yesterday. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-.... Many will be facing deportation to a homeland that is likely to come under US attacks in the near future. www.economist.com/the-americas...

Privately owned profit-based social media is 100% harm to society

Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.

Ten percent of Zuckerbucks come from scams and ads for banned goods 🫠

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Maths...

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.

Man, if you're a *Canadian* billionaire who's going to demand an audience from a New Yorker who was elected 48 hrs ago at least don't wear your comically on brand attire to do it.

So a trillionaire will exist before Americans get socialized healthcare? "Eat" the rich is not aggressive enough.

Revealed: ICE violates its own policy by holding people in secretive rooms for days or weeks Guardian analysis finds ICE increasingly keeps people in holding rooms with little oversight, as some facilities see a 600% rise in detention length

“The lack of communication & lack of access to counsel for people in these sites is a way of preventing transparency and accountability,” said Paige Austin, our Supervising Litigation Attorney.

ICE's secretive detention rooms allow a "total lack of oversight" on the conditions people are held in.

In 2001, terrorists tried to destroy the White House with a hijacked plane. 24 years later, the president of the United States accepted a plane from people funding terrorists and destroyed the White House himself.🔄

Founders of groundbreaking Vancouver compassion club found guilty of drug trafficking Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum, who sold club members drugs they had tested for safety, plan to launch a constitutional challenge against Canada's drug laws on November 24.

Full article is up.

“There is no issue that the Crown has proven the essential elements of the offence of [possession for the purpose of trafficking],” Murray said. “However, this case is not that straightforward.”

Read more at @pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca/founders-of-...